I for one would like to send a big THANK YOU to Mary Swindell who championed the job of registering all those last minute ABB's from procrastinating owners. I am embarrassed to say that I was one. I had taken pictures about 3 times over the years but when I started sorting them I realized that it is a hassle - most of my ewes look identical (good breed typing) and ear tags don't stay in long with my page wire fences. And also, my sheep are not friendly and don't stand still for me to read tags (fortunately the chip scanner can read on the run by). I would like to permanently tattoo my sheep but I'd have to implant a chip in the ear, an ink tattoo couldn't be read unless the animal was forcibly kept still. So, Christmas and Boxing days were spent outside in -15 Celsius taking pictures of sheep who were not being cooperative - especially #112 who seemed to be in every 2nd picture J Mary patiently dealt with my mistakes and I was happy to receive her email that the registrations are now in the mail.
Thanks again Mary for a job well done. Donna-Marie Cyr Teseko Farms _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly mailing list Visit the list's homepage at %http://www.blackbellysheep.info
